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An exposition of the Symbol of the ApostlesAn exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles
An exposition of the Symbol of the Apostles, or rather of the articles of faith In which the chief points of the everlasting and free covenant between God and the faithful is briefly and plainly handled. Gathered out of the catechising sermons of Gasper Oleuvian Trevir, and now translated out of the Latin tongue into the English for the benefit of Christ his Church. By John Field.An exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles, or rather of the articles of faith In which the chiefe points of the euerlasting and free couenant betweene God and the faithfull is briefly and plainly handled. Gathered out of the catechising sermons of Gasper Oleuvian Treuir, and now translated out of the Latine tongue into the English for the benefite of Christ his Church. By Iohn Fielde.
London: printed by H. Middleton for Thomas Man, 1581
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The last fruit of the doctrine concerning the providence of God.
The last fruite of the doctrine concerning the prouidence of God.
The last fruit is that same incredible security, wherewith the Christian heart is ever afterward fenced for when innumerable evils lie upon the life of man, which threaten as many deaths; when this light of Gods providence shall once shine forth unto him, then at length is he relieved from vexation, fear, & in a manner from all care, whereby he fully resolveth that he is received into the faith of God, & is a confederate to him, committed to the care of Angels, free from all danger & hurt of creatures: neither that he can receive any hurt of them, but so far as God ⟨p. 110⟩being their moderator, shall vouchsafe to give them place; who maketh that same hurt to work together with him, their good. Ps. 27.1.3. & psa. 91. He shall cover thee with his wings, and under his wings thou shalt be safe. His truth is thy shield and helmet. Thou shalt not fear for the fear of the night. Also Psal. 118. vers. 6. Rom. 8. vers. 31.38. So David humbly beholding the nature of God, hopeth that Simeies railings should turn to his good. 2. Sam. 16. vers. 12. Perhaps the Lord will behold my affliction, and render me good for his cursing this day. By what a wonderful providence was Paul saved, with all the rest that were in the ship with him? where even in the middest of the waves of the sea, and in roaring of the winds, all things to the show were confused, there appeared evident and undoubted prints of the divine providence, which drave the ship thither whence they might safely escape. Act. 27. which thing undoubtedly from thenceforth brought great security to Paul against all the hurt of all creatures, and then especially when he must come before Nero, and should weigh with himself, with how great providence of God, contrary to his own determination and counsel, he was brought thither. Moreover he conceived greater security for the time to come by his deliverance, in his first defence, as he writeth in the